BEIJING — The Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration.

It calls for launching a space lab and collecting samples from the moon, all by 2016, along with a more powerful manned spaceship and space freighters.

In recent years, China has also sought to build a military capacity in keeping with its economic might. Under the new space plan, it would vastly expand its version of a Global Positioning System, which would have military as well as civilian uses.

China is still years behind the U.S. in space. But China has consistently stuck to a development timeline for its program and met the realistic goals set out in its five-year plans.

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